Quantization made by Richard Erkhov.
This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using
mergekit.
This merge aimed to be a compromise between the base and instruct models, to enable future merging and/or fine-tuning by thawing out the instruct model while keeping some of its strengths.
Built with Meta Llama 3.
This model was merged using the SLERP merge method.
1slices:
2 - sources:
3 - model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
4 layer_range: [0,32]
5 - model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
6 layer_range: [0,32]
7merge_method: slerp
8base_model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
9parameters:
10 t:
11 - value: 0.5
12dtype: bfloat16
13